Live, Work & Travel in Scandinavia
Top Sites
Roskilde Festival - It takes around 7,500 volunteers to make this large Danish music festival come together. Applications are taken from the end of March.
Employment
Employers, Agencies & Placement Services
Alliances Abroad - Provide many and varied opportunities for arranging shorter term jobs, internships, and teaching positions for all nationalities in several countries.
ARP-Hansen Hotel Group - A group of ten hotels in Copenhagen. Job information is only available on the Danish language version of the website.
AstraZeneca - Volunteers required to test medicines in Stockholm, Lund and Molndal.
Crystal Holidays - Ski Jobs in Sweden.
EurocampExis - Supply Danish farmers with strawberry pickers. Also au pair work available.
100s Au Pairs - Online presence of three agencies that can place au pairs in Scandinavia.
Legoland - Danish theme park.
VIP Ski Lodge Vemdalen - Swedish ski lodge. No employment information on the website but have been spotted advertising for summer season catering and bar staff.
Employment Resources
Advice & Useful Sites for Finding Work
Beitostolen - Norwegian winter resort.
CIMO - The Centre for International Mobility is a Finnish governmental agency providing information about working in Finland and language and culture courses.
Gaustablikk - Norwegian winter resort.
Geilo - Norwegian winter resort
Hemsedal - Norwegian winter resort.
Lillehammer Turist - Tourist info for the Norwegian winter resort.
The Norwegian Directorate of Labour - Top marks to the Norwegians for producing a guide to living and working in their country. It offers information on using their, and other, services to find a job or study in Norway.
Gap Year & Voluntary Work
Unpaid Positions & Adventure
Allianssi Youth Exchanges - AYE mostly sends young Finns abroad but they do place about 100 international volunteers with their work camps in Finland every year. Those volunteers are recruited from partner organisations abroad.
Amnesty International Finland - Though most of the website is in Finnish, the English version of the website provides an email address for English speakers interested in volunteer work.
Atlantis - Runs a Working Guest programme enabling foreigners, aged 18 to 30, to work for up to six months in the Norwegian countryside. Applicants must be able to speak English and will receive board, lodging and pocket money.
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
Centre for International Mobility - Specialise in study and training placements to Finland and run a number of official EU programmes.
CIF in Finland - An exchange programme where participants live with host families in Finland.
ICYE Finland - A reciprocal programme that hosts volunteers in Finland. Volunteers work in non profit organisations and communities such as social projects, environment or peace movements, women’s organisations and special cultural and developmental projects.
Mast International - US based organisation. Voluntary work in various countries, mostly Europe, in agriculture, horticulture and forestry.
Roskilde Festival - It takes around 7,500 volunteers to make this large Danish music festival come together. Applications are taken from the end of March.
Study in Sweden - Information about higher education in Sweden including scholarships and learning Swedish.
Húsavík Whale Museum - Aiming to provide interesting information about whales and their habitat, the whale museum has a volunteer programme. Volunteers aged over 21 and willing to work for two months work on reception, guide museum visitors and participate in the whale research project. Positions are available from May to September.
Seeds - Many and varied short term workcamps around Iceland such as supporting the Rekjavik Arts Festival or helping out at Vatnajökull National Park, the largest in Europe. Longer term volunteer work and internships are also available.
United Planet - UP represents the USA and Canada as part of the ICYE federation. They operate the Finland Volunteer Quest Programme, applicants for which should be US or Canadian citizens or residents. Work begins in August each year and volunteers take part in either education or social projects.
Wayoutwest - Two day festival in Gothenburg. Brief volunteer information, in Swedish, and contact email available.
Worldwide Friends Iceland - A non profit NGO that promotes nature and peace orientated activities for people interested in spending some time in Iceland as volunteers. Participants can take part in short term workcamps or on longer projects. The Clean Up the Coastline project aims to clean the beaches of Iceland within five years by collecting waste in collaboration with international volunteers, school children, students, youth and environmental organisations and companies.
WWOOF Denmark - WWOOF Dk is a group of farms, families and projects involved in organic projects.
WWOOF Sweden - Discover Sweden by volunteering on organic farms.
Living in Scandinavia
Real Estate and Resources for Staying Long Term
A Foreigner Living in Finland - A blogger's opinions and comments.
Allcanuck.com.- For Canadians living in Denmark.
Expat Finland - For people living and working in Finland, the content ranges from residence permits, social security and taxation, to housing, employment, banks, media, social groups and events, travel and more.
FinnGuide - Information about Finland and things Finnish for travellers and expats.
Living and Working in Norway - A page of information.
Oh - those Danes... - A blog from a German living in Denmark.
Travelling in Scandinavia
Accommodation & Getting Around
Green Tourism of Finland - Provides Finnish nature tourism in accordance with sustainable development by bringing together Finnish companies in the tourist industry which respect the consideration of sustainable development.
Use-it - Youth information in Copenhagen.
Other
Culture, News...
Case Learning Systems - Learn Swedish, Norwegian, Danish or Finnish via multimedia CDROM.
Venabu Fjellhotell - Cross country skiing in the mountains of Eastern Norway.
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